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Mike Friedman @mfriedmannola.bsky.social · 16h

Yeah. Those still exist, you never know what they're gonna have. Watermelons are common but I don't like them.

Mr. Okra died a couple years after I moved here ('14) and his family stopped doing selling. I don't think it was a very lucrative business. He was nice. Bought from him a few times.

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Mike Friedman @mfriedmannola.bsky.social · 16h

Americans are so stupid they think the ACA and Obamacare are different things.

And the Rs don't want to do the homework because there IS no better "market" alternative. If there was someone at some think tank would've proposed it in the past 20 years.

It's a dumb argument and they know it.

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Chelsea Blue @lordye.bsky.social · 23h

This is Chop, the other you may recognise as Cricket. Both murdered in cold blood by Noem and her agents. Who or what is next at the hands of these unqualified bums?

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Mike Friedman @mfriedmannola.bsky.social · 16h

Not like that, no. The SF farmer's markets were always amazing. People would drive in from Fresno and Modesto and the stuff was just fabulous. One year I went back and bought a 2nd flat just because they were so good and so inexpensive. I cooked with them all winter.

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Mike Friedman @mfriedmannola.bsky.social · 16h

The alternative name is The Washed Up Sausage Fest.

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Mike Friedman @mfriedmannola.bsky.social · 16h

My pleasure. I miss living in California where in Sept/Oct I could buy an entire flat of tomatoes at the farmer's market for $10 and can them. The late season ones were maybe a little gnarly looking but the taste was always amazing.

I haven't found that here in NOLA yet.

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Mike Friedman @mfriedmannola.bsky.social · 16h

The alternative name is The Washed Up Sausage Fest.

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 1d

Were screeching cats in heat not available?

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Mike Friedman @mfriedmannola.bsky.social · 17h

#ReleaseTheGrindrProfile

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Mike Friedman @mfriedmannola.bsky.social · 17h

Still haven't done your homework, huh Mister Speaker?

You've had 20 years to come up with a plans, and NONE OF YOU HAVE DONE THE HOMEWORK.

Because you're too fucking lazy. All you want to do is whine about it. But none of you can be bothered to actually do the hard research. LAZY MOTHERFUCKERS.

Mike Friedman @mfriedmannola.bsky.social · 17h

They still haven't done the homework. They've LITERALLY HAD TWENTY YEARS to do this.

The ACA was based on Republican ideas that Romney implemented when he was Governor of Massachusetts.

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Mike Friedman @mfriedmannola.bsky.social · 17h

I wonder how this compares to France in 1788.

The state finances were in a mess (partly because France helped US with the war of independence from Britain) and people were starving. The Queen never said "Let them eat cake" but it didn't matter. She lost her head in 1792 anyway.

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

Mike Friedman @mfriedmannola.bsky.social · 17h

JESUS WANTED ME TO MURDER YOU FUCKING HEATHENS.

And take all your stuff.

Mike Friedman @mfriedmannola.bsky.social · 17h

Do you know how to make the best canned tomato soup?

Take a can of the best tomatoes you can afford (or ones you canned yourself last summer!) Puree them. Put them in a pot. Season them the way you like (I'm a fan of cumin and coriander, salt/pepper).

Heat. Cook for a few minutes. Tomato soup.

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Mike Friedman @mfriedmannola.bsky.social · 18h

Yeah, the sauce is....um......a touch sweet. :-) And the pasta is overcooked since it's canned. Yeah, it's not good. I can see why children would like it though.

Once in a blue moon. Like having a hankering for Campbell's tomato soup and a grilled cheese with the fakest American cheese.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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Mike Friedman @mfriedmannola.bsky.social · 20h

Do you think he's done lines with Uncle Junior yet?

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Mike Friedman @mfriedmannola.bsky.social · 20h

Food conglomerate Con-Agra owns the brand now.

I loved mini-ravioli in a can when I was a kid. I also liked Beef-a-roni. I still occasionally buy them. Are they good? No. But they remind me of being 10 in the 1970s.

Mike Friedman @mfriedmannola.bsky.social · 20h

CLOSET CASES ARE SO FUCKING BORING.

Dude. Just go suck some dick and stop bothering us. Please? It's so fucking tedious and such a cliche.

Mike Friedman @mfriedmannola.bsky.social · 20h

If they're paying millions of us to protest, then where is my check?

I want back pay too! Union scale motherfuckers!

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Mike Friedman @mfriedmannola.bsky.social · 20h

When he woke up in bed with the cute DJ in Burlesque, all the gay bears I was watching with swooned.

It's a bit of a silly movie, but also super fun. Cher (chewing a bit of scenery here and there), Stanley and Christine Aguilera.

It created a catch phrase in our house: "DON'T TOUCH MY STUFF!"

Mike Friedman @mfriedmannola.bsky.social · 20h

Chef Boyardee. Seriously. He was a real person. (Who knew?)

Ettore Boiardi. He died in Cleveland in 1985 after a long successful career.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ch...

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Mike Friedman @mfriedmannola.bsky.social · 20h

It's not "fiction." The word you are looking for is LIE.

Stop using euphemisms, media.

THIS IS A LIE.

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Mike Friedman @mfriedmannola.bsky.social · 20h

That's because the crime you don't see in Egypt is carried out by the state, particularly the military that runs half of the economy including enterprises that make seemingly benign things like washing machines.

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Mike Friedman @mfriedmannola.bsky.social · 20h

And poking fun not just at the subject but gently at himself too. His writers (one of which is probably him) are VERY VERY good.

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